does circuit training have it's place in gymnastics?

[Edward Smith]

does you guys think circuit training has it's place in gymnastics conditioning, I mean do you thinks it's a good way to train once or so a week, every training session, unnecessary, waste of time. And if you do it is it better to do upper, mid and lower body circuits seperately or intertwined?

[Guest Ido Portal]

Of course.

At my training center we use a form of bodyweight conditioning circuit for general physical preparation, anaerobic endurance and basic strength. I created a routine called 'the key'. (Its a joke in hebrew, 'key' means 'vomit'...)

I remember coach sommer mentioning once his own circuit called 'the hungarian routine', maybe he can elaborate more about the subject and provide us an example.

[kbryk]

Of course circuit training will of course help you, I think the sole purpose of circuit training is develop a tolerance for these workouts so they become easier, kind of like conditioning.

I would ask Sommer on the types of circuits because when I hit of the weights I usually do the meat head workouts, bench, clean you know the rest, but I always make room for dips pull ups and deltoid work.